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And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway--Breaking the Secrets


Year: 1987
Language: english
Author: Edwin T. Layton, Roger Pineau, John Costello
Genre: History
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Edition: First
ISBN: 978-0688069681
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 596
Description: Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton (USN-R) has written the most authoritative, illuminating, and probative study of the all-important intelligence campaign. This effort allowed the US military forces in the Pacific Theater to operate with an enviable level of situational awareness of enemy preparations, orders of battle, and intentions. The irony is that these war-winning efforts were born from the worst intelligence failure in American history -- the failure to properly disseminate the vital information of Japanese intentions to Husband Kimmel and Walter Short, the Navy and Army commanders in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack.
This book faithfully documents that magnificent rise from the ashes of Pearl Harbor, and how just six months later, an incredibly accurate and detailed intelligence analysis by the Station Hypho team, led by Commander Joseph Rochefort, provided Chester Nimitz a nearly complete picture of Japanese intentions and timeline, allowing American forces to array themselves for ambush, and score the tide-turning strategic victory at Midway.
Sadly, the book also documents the amazingly selfish inter-Navy war waged between Washington DC Naval intelligence agencies against their Station Hypho counterparts. Layton's prime goal was to combine completely honest narrative, with a desire to correct the record and undo the damage done to Kimmel and Short, plus also after the Midway victory, to Joe Rochefort. Amazingly, the Navy scapegoated and destroyed the career of the man who was most singularly responsible for the grand Midway victory. Within months of what should have elevated Rochefort to great career success in the Navy, he was instead relegated to a punitive assignment as the commander of a floating dry dock ship! And, was prohibited from even sailing his ship outside of port!
The book details how these selfish actions to destroy Rochefort alerted the Japanese to our code breaking success, which had the direct result of keeping US forces in the dark to Japanese intentions regarding the Guadalcanal operation that immediately followed.
No one can read this book without gaining an outstanding insight into the realities of all these machinations. At the same time, one cannot help but feel angry over the sinister and personal animus inflicted upon men who should have been celebrated in the Navy for their skill and performance.
Layton's book may well be the most important narrative of the previously hidden story of how Naval intelligence contributed mightily to the defeat of the Rising Sun, as well as perhaps settling once and for all the true story of how the Pearl Harbor disaster happened, devoid of any attempt to scapegoat, but also no desire to whitewash factual accountability.

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